Tomas started his career as a PHP developer. After graduating, he worked at British Telecom as head of the Web Services department in Argentina. After that, he went to IBM, where he wore many technical hats: DBA, Sysdamin, and DevOps. He's now an independent consultant and writer. He loves to learn and to teach about technology. In his free time, he likes reading, sailing, and board gaming.
MySQL is an open source relational database system that, like Linux, started its history as a personal side project. Over its 25 years of history, MySQL has gained significant traction, and today a broad range of companies, such as Sony and Uber, use it to run their...
First released in 1997, PostgreSQL is in its twenties—quite something in the fast-paced software industry. Despite its age, PostgreSQL is the second most-used relational database system in the world, and has won (for the second consecutive time) the DBMS of the...